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StepStone Group

Private equity / VC · Founded 2007 · Active in 2026

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38 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #497 · Global · 38 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 400% 5y
30
Decacorns → 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 1700% 5y
20
Featured in #497Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 3%

StepStone Group is a private equity / vc based in USA, founded in 2007. The page below shows 38 Power Law outcomes from StepStone Group's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Energy · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · India. StepStone ranks #497 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 38 StepStone Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA32
  2. UK4
  3. India2
By sectorCount
  1. AI6
  2. Energy5
  3. Fintech5
  4. Cybersecurity5
  5. Other B2B Software3
  6. Marketing2
  7. Edtech2
  8. Health Tech & Medtech2
  9. Other2
  10. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  11. Transportation2
  12. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+29
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed1
01 · Portfolio market map

StepStone's 38 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
38 of 38 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where StepStone's founders come from — and where they study.

112 founders across the 38 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States44
Romania9
United Kingdom9
India8
Israel7
China6
Russia6
Hungary4
Germany4
Ukraine3
+5 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University13
Georgia Institute of Technology7
EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne5
University of Toronto4
The Open University3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Eötvös Loránd University2
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology2
Politehnica University of Bucharest2
+42 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google9
Microsoft7
Google DeepMind6
OpenAI3
Starling Bank3
SimilarWeb3
KiranaKart2
Uber2
Flipkart2
Leverate2
+32 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at StepStone.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does StepStone stack up?

StepStone in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about StepStone Group

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about StepStone on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about StepStone Group

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